Fairlight-CMI

Hi,

Just looking again to the sesame street cmi showdown at 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoisNv1ftw


I realized I don't know how Herby transforms the voice sample into a monotone computer voice at min. 4.40
can you tell how he does the trick ?

cheers,
David

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dd_62622" <dd_62622@...> wrote:

> I realized I don't know how Herby transforms the voice sample into a monotone computer voice at min. 4.40
> can you tell how he does the trick ?
> 
> cheers,
> David

If I'm not mistaken, and remember correctly, it sounds like setting the loop-length to one segment, and traversing the loop-start along in real-time. I always did it manually, but with a triggered function curve mapped to loop-start (via function editor) you can probably automate it.

AON (Jeczalik) does that (and some other on-the-fly voice manipulation) in the song "Legs". Listen out for it.

This kind of thing is great musical fun, especially with kids and people who have never played with samplers before. Any fairlight is certainly a great ambassador to the world of sampling.

Joe

> can you tell how he does the trick ?

Oh, almost forgot. If you can change the mode of the sound from 4 to 1 (or 1 to 4, always forget) the playback rules change so that it runs through the segments and loops each segment for a particular length of "real" time, instead of just playing the sample through at the commanded playback rate with commanded loop parameters. Allows gradual timbral development which doesn't "munchkinise" as you play higher notes. The colour of the note always develops at more or less the same rate. So in this case, the colour of the timbre is the vowels and consonants.

Anyway, that might also work.

With the CMI there always seems to be at least two ways to arrive at any observed effect.

Joe

• Load or sample the particular sample
• Go to Page 5
• Analyze each segment (this will take a while)
• Resynthesize each segment

Hi guys,

Thanks for the feedback.....the cmi just triggers one's creativity.
I can't stop playing the keyboard and she always amazes me with that organic sound.
I use a lexicon pcm 70 reverb and the combination cmi lexicon is just out of this world ....I can hear/feel high-end 70's.....space shuttle...concorde....,they don't make em like that no more.
......I recently  (no joke) hypnotized a beautifull woman with the sound of the cmi   :  )

cheers,
David


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Alexander Guelfenburg <vmebay@...> wrote:

>
> Hi David,
> 
> a way to create these effects is by analyzing 
> each segment and then resynthesize each segment.
> 
> The commands are:
>     * Load or sample the particular sample
>     * Go to Page 5 <P5>
>     * Analyze each segment <A,*> (this will take a while)
>     * Resynthesize each segment <C,*>
> If you want you can switch to the harmonic mode 
> for stretching the segments. Another fun option 
> is if you stay in sampling mode and assign the 
> sliders of the keyboard to the loop parameters 
> like START and LENGTH. It´s amazing what effects can be created very easily :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Just looking again to the sesame street cmi showdown at
> >
> ><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoisNv1ftw>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoisNv1ftw
> >
> >I realized I don't know how Herby transforms the 
> >voice sample into a monotone computer voice at min. 4.40
> >can you tell how he does the trick ?
> >
> >cheers,
> >David
> >
> 
> 
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